I know where you can find out if you're REALLY curious....
http://www.oceanofk.org/artskool/jem/ymo1.html Japanese (YMO site)
and here is the YMO list....jwgrote@indiana.edu. email here for signing on to the
YMO list
jeff
Chip wrote:
quoted 42 lines interestingly enough, i saw snake eyes (nicolas cage) last week, and
> interestingly enough, i saw snake eyes (nicolas cage) last week, and
> while the title credits were passing by, i saw that the score was done by
> sakamoto. unfortunately, i got too wrapped up in the movie to really pay
> attention to the score as anything other than a tension builder, so i
> can't give any sort of review/opinion. anyone else know about this?
>
> thanks,
> alan!
>
> On Sun, 16 Aug 1998, waving AND drowning wrote:
>
> > Ryuchi Sakamoto is one of the founding members of YMO. His style runs from
> > neo-classical to techno to pop and several points in between. Geez...where do
> > I start? This guy has a - what? - 20 + year career we're talking about here
> > full of twists and turns. If you can find "Technodon" (is this a Japanese only
> > release or did it simply never see US domesticity?) by YMO, consider yourself
> > lucky. That may be the group's
> > most this-listy thing. I'm kinda surprised this never gets mentioned as it's
> > (imo) a lovely thing - prolly too poppy at points for the crowd here.
> > "Technodelic" is also a good YMO staple, albeit a good 12 years older than
> > "Technodon". You might be more familiar with Haruomi Hosono, who was also from
> > YMO and whose output (sometimes, anyway) has more of a chance of being talked
> > about in this neck-o-the-woods. As for what you heard on the Ninja thing, the
> > remixers (Tobin and co.) have definitely left a vast impression on the outcome
> > of Ryuchi's original product.
> > jeff
> > Ali Lalani wrote:
> >
> > > Hey there...have had this release for awhile, but i never asked these
> > > burning question...so here they are:
> > >
> > > 1. Riuichi Sakamota: who IS this guy? Never heard of him before, but this
> > > has to be one of my favourite songs i've ever heard on Ninja Tune...ALWAYS
> > > gets my blood pumping!
> > >
> >
> >
> >
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> > dancing/about/architechture "...with wandering steps and slow..." ICQ904008
> >
> >
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